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The Railroad Commission Playing the
Same Old Tune Again.

Same Old Tune Again.
Copyright, 1857. by the California Associated Pressl
NEW YORK, September 21st.-[Special.] /
The Central Pacific hearing was continued
before the United States Railroad Commits
sion to-day. G. z. Huntington testified that
he had been busy man for fifty years, and
| could not recall any of the details covering
the payments for certain expenses at
Washington. He did not care to
say anything about these expenses,
except that they were proper, le-
gally and morally. Between the year 1872
and the present time there have been MANY
| times when matters of importance have
come up in Congress concerning the Pa,
citic railways. | have spent good many
nights with our Washington attorneys ex-
planning to them what | thought was for
the interests of the road, and they attended
to the remainder of the work and secured
suitable men to carry ii out. Many of the
men so selected to explain to Congressman
were outside of the railroad company. We
simply secured good men to explain to
new congressman what was for the public
good. did good deal more for the public
good than l would do again. We had
to get good men who could talk
to such Congressman, and to whom
they would listen. A wise, good
constituent would be better to talk to a
Congressman than an alien. l know that
sometimes | would talk to members, but
they would not talk to me. We had to do
everything possible to build this road. If
this Commission only knew how MANY
nights l have laid awake trying to devise
ways and means to carry out this road
they would know at once that l would not
90 through with it again.
Concerning the Cotton letters, Hunting
,al hot J, L:
office between Saturday and Monday. |
have had the letters offered to me several
times since for a price, but would not buy
them. There was nothing in them that
was wrong, unless it was the spelling. /
know, in general way, what the letters
contained. I remember the Cotton case,
brought in California. 1t was an impor-
tant suit.
Huntington would not positively identify
letter, a copy of which was shown him,
as one that he had written. 1t might be
one Of mine and it might not, | would
not like to swear either way.
The Commission inquired concerning
the meaning of phrases in the letters which
were produced, and Huntington explained
He said that he had never witten letter
which he would he ashamed to see pub
lished, the grammar and spelling excepted
He said " quit going to school when |
was II years old | have picked up such
language as l could, and l use it to express
just what l mean, l never bought up a
vote in nv life | presume that among 400
congressman some might be venal. Eigh-
teen hundred years ago the best man that
ever lived selected twelve men, but even
then 16 2-3 per cent of them proved of
light weight"
He did not belive that he ever wrote the
| following; ~ believe that with 500. 600
we could pass our bill, but | take it that
1t is not worth that much to us" He
believed that the letters were garbled. If l
wrote that sentence | would be willing to
have it published for | think that with
that 100000 | could send men to Washing
ton to confer with and explain things.
Commissioner Anderson asked if Hunt
ington had any objection to discontinuing
| a suit at San Francisco by which the orig
inal letters are held there under injunction,
so that the originals might be brought
here.
Witness said that he would have to con-
suit with his associates on that point, as
they we're as much interested in that suit
as himself
Witness said it was lively times for the
Central Pacific while Tom SCOTS project
was before Congress. Witness wrote
great many letters to D. D. Cotton at this
been stolen from safe in San Francisco
Four agents of Coltons Administrative had
tried to sell them to witness, but he de-
chned 10 buy.
Witness began TO get angry at the sugges-
tons in Anderson's interrogatories con-
cerning expressions in the Cotton letters,
that there was something venal in their
| language, and he proceeded to make an
impassioned speech. He said "a lot of
skinned politicians are always ready to
place q wrong construction on my Ian
gusge, ard see that it has even disturbed
this Commission"
Commissioner Anderson-tThose letters
are produced to ascertain if any of the
money represented by these unexplained
vouchers was used to purchase legisla-
ton
Mr.. Huntingdon can say emphatic
ally that it never was"
1t was decided that he should submit
some scheme for settling the affairs of the
road and the Government at Fridays ses-
sion.
Mr.. Cohen, in answer to requests for
vouchers as to certain large disbursements
made by Huntington, stated that Governor
Stanford had refused to forward them, as
the Commission had already great many
important documents of the company
which it had failed to return. He did not
propose to intrust any more such papers to